We call it the American Dream like it just happens — like it's the weather. But freedom is not the natural state of mankind, and the Dream is not luck. It's a fire someone has to keep burning. The reason you get to chase your future at all? An American raised their right hand and swore to defend it with their life. Nobody made them do it — and that's the whole miracle. Here's why the American Dream belongs first to the ones who made it possible.

This is the truth this country was built on, and it's the truth I want burned back into you today: America Can. America Has. America Will. Say it out loud if you have to. Because everything that phrase means for this nation, it means for you, too.